Conté à ParisDrawing Pencil - White

It ended up not being what I expected. I didn't realize these pencils are used for charcoal. I was planning on having a really nice white pencil for my color pencil artwork, but it does not mesh well with my wax-based Prismacolor pencils. I am soon going to be getting Faber-Castell Polychromos color pencils that are oil-based, and maybe they'll mesh better.

I use this pencil in almost everyone of my portraits. It's been a great addition to my arsenal. I like the release against tooth ration and the deep white color it leaves behind. I'll attach an example of what I've done with it.

it's a good full-coverage white. a little scratchy though

I have used Prisma Colors over the years.

Smooth without breaking.

I bought this to go with sanguine and black conte pencils in order to try the aux trois crayons techniques.However, despite the other two pencils having a soft, pastel like application, this pencil seems to be oil or wax based which means that blending with the others is a little awkward. Areas of blending take on a different, smooth appearance, and an oily sheen, whereas the black and sanguine mix and blend as expected.I've found that using a white charcoal pencil is a better option for the technique.As simply a 'white pencil' it isn't particularly good either, being a little too transparent to be of any use.It kinda works for burnihing coloured pencils, but I woildn't buy this again.

White pencils are problematic. I try not to use one and indeed very rarely do. I use a normal 3D pencil to mark the back of fabric I am using for patchwork. The majority of cotton fabrics for patchwork - indeed some quite dark fabrics - have a pale back and the 3D pencil slides over and marks the line I need to make to cut out the patches BUT I have recently bought some very pretty dark fabrics which unfortunately have the pattern going through just as strongly on the back of the fabric as the front. The piece I am designing needs these dark colours. The white pencil I already had made no impression at all so I bought this one. A reputable name. And yes I can get it to work but not very easily - it does not slide over the fabric but it does make a mark and I can cut the patches so I can make the quilt as I want and I just have to accept that these dark patches beautiful as they are will not be easy to work with and may not be as accurately cut and marked as the other patches. C'est la vie!

This is a white Conte pencil. Slightly oilier and more transparent than a white pastel pencil but the one to get if you want to blend it with Conte a Paris Sanguine and Pierre Noir for the classic trois crayons technique. (When its blended over the top of the Pierre Noire you get a very blue grey which is extremely useful for eyes in portrait sketches.)It was also well enough packaged to arrive in good condition with the core undamaged which was excellent.

could work out expensive, buying individually, but i only needed the one white pencil or would have considered buying a set, which included a white

Works nice on coloured paper but doesn't highlight over graphite sketches. I should be able to use it for some work but not others.